SUCCESS STEP 3: What do you do after Fast Flash and Sandwich Style?

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Down the Yellow Brick Reading Road

Follow Success step by step...

One Success Step at a Time…

If you’ve been following my blogs on teaching emergent readers with Down syndrome, this one’s for you.

Week by week in these blogs, we’re going to continue down the path of teaching reading to our children/teens/adults.

I’m going to walk this walk with you Step by Step; stay with me, and together we can watch your child soar.

Success Step 3

Today we’ll look at SUCCESS STEP 3. Success Steps 1 and 2 were posted in the last few weeks; here are the links if you need a refresher:

SS-1. Realize you have only 2 choices in teaching your child to read. Choose the best: 5 minutes 2x day.

SS-2. Begin with Fast Flash & the Sandwich Style of Teaching

SS-3. Today you’ll add a new tool into the mix: Lottos or Matching Games

What You’re Doing So Far

You've got this going; now what?

You’ve got this going; now what?

So far in this Success Step Program, you’re working 5 minutes 2 x a day with your child. Not only that, you know what to teach in those 5 minutes:

  1. You’ve created a simple personal book and flash cards to go with it. So in those 5 minutes,
  2. You’re Fast Flashing the cards 3 or 4 times rapidly, then
  3. Reading that Fantastic Personal Book together, then
  4. Fast Flashing the cards again.

That’s the “Sandwich Style”: Flash, Read, Flash. As your child learns the words through the Fast Flash method, she will gradually read the words instead of you. You’re working together on this.

Now What? Expand your tools: Add Lottos

Add another beginning tool into the mix: Lotto or Matching Game Sheets. This is a terrific tool for building confidence and vocabulary, and kids love it. If you’ll follow that link, you’ll not only learn the different levels of using these games (easy to difficult), but you’ll be able to download 2 freebie PDFs I’ve created, which look like this:

Print 2 copies; cut one copy for Picture CardsYou'll need 2 copies of these as well.

You can make your own lottos, or buy them from the DS Foundation of Orange County, which offers a whole line of topics for $14 each. If you make them yourself on your computer or with apps, be sure to scramble the order of the words! If you leave the word order the same as the picture order, our kids brilliantly memorize the picture position and fake matching picture to word! ‘Nuf said.

Some great personal lotto ideas: family members (& pets), favorite foods, favorite TV or movie characters. Do it! Your child will love them.

I realize that if you’re just joining me, you’re going to be following links back to previous info. Not to worry: it’s all there, and you can use my site’s “Search the Blog” feature if you need to! (Look to your right, further up the page…)

Cheers,

Natalie-Hale-sig

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